Evangeline Giaconia
@evgiaconia.bsky.social
🐲Writer, artist, archival professional
✒️Queer speculative fiction
🔖Published in Utopia Science Fiction, 4LPH4NUM3R1C, After the Storm, and more
📖2026 anthologies: Trans/Port (Lonely Cryptid) & Home Constellations (Manawaker)
https://linktr.ee/evgiaconia
✒️Queer speculative fiction
🔖Published in Utopia Science Fiction, 4LPH4NUM3R1C, After the Storm, and more
📖2026 anthologies: Trans/Port (Lonely Cryptid) & Home Constellations (Manawaker)
https://linktr.ee/evgiaconia
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Today is the day! My sci-fi short story "False Equivalencies" is out in the Disability Pride issue of @utopiascifi.bsky.social! Even better, it's currently ✨free to read✨ To say I am overjoyed to be included in this volume is a hilarious understatement.
READ HERE ➡️
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
READ HERE ➡️
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
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OTHERSIDE is looking for 1-2 first readers! We got SO many amazing submissions that it's time to expand our team!
Interested? This is a great opportunity to learn about the editorial process 👀 We offer an honorarium and first readers can still submit to us!
📝Apply here: forms.gle/QcYLzXFn6AEn...
Interested? This is a great opportunity to learn about the editorial process 👀 We offer an honorarium and first readers can still submit to us!
📝Apply here: forms.gle/QcYLzXFn6AEn...
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
OTHERSIDE is looking for 1-2 first readers! We got SO many amazing submissions that it's time to expand our team!
Interested? This is a great opportunity to learn about the editorial process 👀 We offer an honorarium and first readers can still submit to us!
📝Apply here: forms.gle/QcYLzXFn6AEn...
Interested? This is a great opportunity to learn about the editorial process 👀 We offer an honorarium and first readers can still submit to us!
📝Apply here: forms.gle/QcYLzXFn6AEn...
Begging people to back this anthology kickstarter (3k needed and 4 days left!!!) because never mind the story I submitted, if I don't get this paper doll I'm gonna lose it for real.
Okay folks I have confirmed from Mysterious Benefactor #2 that they have chosen to fund the FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS for each story. Combined with our first Benefactor, we have color endpages too.
That means that we still need one more Benefactor if we would like to have paper dolls for each story.
That means that we still need one more Benefactor if we would like to have paper dolls for each story.
February 16, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Begging people to back this anthology kickstarter (3k needed and 4 days left!!!) because never mind the story I submitted, if I don't get this paper doll I'm gonna lose it for real.
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Are you an SFF writer with experience to share? The SFWA Career Mentorship Program needs you! Please consider volunteering as a mentor with our 3-month-long program. The broader our applicant pool, the more chances we can make a good match!
Apply here before February 21, 9pm PST:
Apply here before February 21, 9pm PST:
SFWA Career Mentor Questionnaire
Greetings, SFWA Mentorship Program Mentor Applicant! We're happy that you're interested in our program, and we're gratified to see you “paying it forward.” One of the Mentorship Program's goals is to…
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February 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Are you an SFF writer with experience to share? The SFWA Career Mentorship Program needs you! Please consider volunteering as a mentor with our 3-month-long program. The broader our applicant pool, the more chances we can make a good match!
Apply here before February 21, 9pm PST:
Apply here before February 21, 9pm PST:
Reading through recent @100footcrow.bsky.social stories this morning, and I just loved "I, Roomba" by @liamjhogan.bsky.social! Give it a read, it's only 100 words and it'll make you smile!
100footcrow.com/i-roomba/
100footcrow.com/i-roomba/
I, Roomba - 100-Foot Crow
By: Liam Hogan. My Roomba keeps telling me about the novel it’s written. It trundles across the kitchen floor, but as soon as I enter it changes course, “accidentally” bumping against my foot. “Have y...
100footcrow.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Reading through recent @100footcrow.bsky.social stories this morning, and I just loved "I, Roomba" by @liamjhogan.bsky.social! Give it a read, it's only 100 words and it'll make you smile!
100footcrow.com/i-roomba/
100footcrow.com/i-roomba/
It will be an actual tragedy if WHAT ELEGANT STARS doesn't get funded. Even if you've already backed the book, please share!! 9 days to go and $4,500 still needed to make this incredible fashion space opera anthology a reality!
We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It will be an actual tragedy if WHAT ELEGANT STARS doesn't get funded. Even if you've already backed the book, please share!! 9 days to go and $4,500 still needed to make this incredible fashion space opera anthology a reality!
Just backed Neon Hemlock's amazing new anthology! A copy of the paperback + ebook is only $22 FYI ... get on it!
We would be hype if you consider supporting WHAT ELEGANT STARS at the Benefactor level to single-handedly make our stretch goals happen 🚀 (and also smash this initial goal) so grateful to already have one Benefactor on board!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
February 8, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Just backed Neon Hemlock's amazing new anthology! A copy of the paperback + ebook is only $22 FYI ... get on it!
Thank you for reviewing False Equivalencies! I'm so excited you chose it to review and enjoyed it. And what a great challenge to read 1 story per day all year 🦾
Day 39! I read False Equivalencies by @evgiaconia.bsky.social published in @utopiascifi.bsky.social. What really defines us? What we do, or what we can do? Or something else entirely? Read my review here:
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/s...
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/s...
S/D/Y Feb 08 – False Equivalencies by Evangeline Giaconia – Utopia
I personally find it a little odd that False Equivalencies was published in Utopia Science Fiction Magazine. It didn’t feel that Utopic to me. It ends on a note of hope, certainly, although i…
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Thank you for reviewing False Equivalencies! I'm so excited you chose it to review and enjoyed it. And what a great challenge to read 1 story per day all year 🦾
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We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
February 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
Snow days are so powerful. I drafted a 6,000 word short story yesterday and wrote it today. ✒️❄️✒️
January 30, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Snow days are so powerful. I drafted a 6,000 word short story yesterday and wrote it today. ✒️❄️✒️
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www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
They've raised 95.5% of their goal, and there's still time to bid.
They've raised 95.5% of their goal, and there's still time to bid.
Publishing for Minnesota
Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:33 AM
www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
They've raised 95.5% of their goal, and there's still time to bid.
They've raised 95.5% of their goal, and there's still time to bid.
Crazy how you'll sit down and try to think of a story and feel like you never ever will, and then you make a random list of concepts such as"Beowulf weregilds" and "7-dimensional weaving," and then you suddenly think of a story that has nothing to do with any of that at all.
January 29, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Crazy how you'll sit down and try to think of a story and feel like you never ever will, and then you make a random list of concepts such as"Beowulf weregilds" and "7-dimensional weaving," and then you suddenly think of a story that has nothing to do with any of that at all.
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Running out of time for people to apply for this! If you're a fanfiction author who's wanted to start publishing your original work, we'd love to see your application!
for the curious, we've received
new-to-press apps: 43
published-with-us-before apps: 20
for the curious, we've received
new-to-press apps: 43
published-with-us-before apps: 20
Are you a fanfiction author? Have you been wanting to break into publishing your original fiction? We're looking for contributors to BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, our next anthology. What's it about? TL:DR... ACE IN SPACE! For the long version, visit our website: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g...
🌈📚
🌈📚
January 29, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Running out of time for people to apply for this! If you're a fanfiction author who's wanted to start publishing your original work, we'd love to see your application!
for the curious, we've received
new-to-press apps: 43
published-with-us-before apps: 20
for the curious, we've received
new-to-press apps: 43
published-with-us-before apps: 20
I'm so charmed by this new anthology - Tales from Space Bar. It reminds me of overheard conversations in The Crossings in @diane.dianeduane.com's Young Wizards series😁
www.spacebarpittsburgh.com/tales-from-s...
www.spacebarpittsburgh.com/tales-from-s...
Tales from Space Bar SFF Short Story Anthology — Space Bar
Tales From Space Bar is a new quarterly science fiction and fantasy anthology series launching from Pittsburgh's own Space Bar. We're looking for original short stories that capture the spirit of tale...
www.spacebarpittsburgh.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I'm so charmed by this new anthology - Tales from Space Bar. It reminds me of overheard conversations in The Crossings in @diane.dianeduane.com's Young Wizards series😁
www.spacebarpittsburgh.com/tales-from-s...
www.spacebarpittsburgh.com/tales-from-s...
I HAVE FINISHED MY FINAL MANUSCRIPT DRAFT 🥳🤸🙏🎈
January 29, 2026 at 1:09 AM
I HAVE FINISHED MY FINAL MANUSCRIPT DRAFT 🥳🤸🙏🎈
What an incredible new initiative!!! This will be so helpful.
New collaboration between The Submission Grinder and @dreamfoundry.bsky.social : The Dream Foundry Market Report, a monthly report of speculative fiction/poetry publication updates
dreamfoundry.org/2026/01/26/j...
dreamfoundry.org/2026/01/26/j...
January 2026 Monthly Market Report
Hello, and welcome to a new Dream Foundry project. Every month we’ll be publishing a market report with data pulled from The Submission Grinder about market openings, closings, and other chan…
dreamfoundry.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:46 PM
What an incredible new initiative!!! This will be so helpful.
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Every novel in the past five years has the same ending: all the characters turn out to be aspects of the same person, who is in turn a sliver of the subconsciousness of a cosmic mollusk.
ENOUGH.
Not every novel needs the gestalt cosmic mollusk ending. I'm sick of the obligatory dreamslimetrail.
ENOUGH.
Not every novel needs the gestalt cosmic mollusk ending. I'm sick of the obligatory dreamslimetrail.
January 24, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Every novel in the past five years has the same ending: all the characters turn out to be aspects of the same person, who is in turn a sliver of the subconsciousness of a cosmic mollusk.
ENOUGH.
Not every novel needs the gestalt cosmic mollusk ending. I'm sick of the obligatory dreamslimetrail.
ENOUGH.
Not every novel needs the gestalt cosmic mollusk ending. I'm sick of the obligatory dreamslimetrail.
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Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.
January 19, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.
Counterweight is the book that got me into translated SFF last year - what a great discussion by Nat Harrington!
Misplaced in Translation: @coimeas.bsky.social looks at the techniques, concerns & connections of Djuna's COUNTERWEIGHT (@pantheonbooks.bsky.social / @vintagebooks.bsky.social, tr. Anton Hur)
Misplaced In Translation: Counterweight
Nat Harrington Under Review:Counterweight. Djuna, translated by Anton Hur. Vintage, July 2024. Our aim is to have a properly functioning government. A country that can protect the people who live i…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Counterweight is the book that got me into translated SFF last year - what a great discussion by Nat Harrington!
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SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN, BABY
Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS
Send work to [email protected] until February 7
Expected pub: late 2026
Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS
Send work to [email protected] until February 7
Expected pub: late 2026
December 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN, BABY
Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS
Send work to [email protected] until February 7
Expected pub: late 2026
Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS
Send work to [email protected] until February 7
Expected pub: late 2026
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Are you a fanfiction author? Have you been wanting to break into publishing your original fiction? We're looking for contributors to BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, our next anthology. What's it about? TL:DR... ACE IN SPACE! For the long version, visit our website: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g...
🌈📚
🌈📚
January 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Are you a fanfiction author? Have you been wanting to break into publishing your original fiction? We're looking for contributors to BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, our next anthology. What's it about? TL:DR... ACE IN SPACE! For the long version, visit our website: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g...
🌈📚
🌈📚
Kind of crazy that I can just sit down at my desk with a pot of tea, tell my brain to think of a story, agonize for 30 mins while I look over everything I've ever written, check social media, decide to work on something else, agonize some more, and then a story miraculously appears in my brain. 🤷
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Kind of crazy that I can just sit down at my desk with a pot of tea, tell my brain to think of a story, agonize for 30 mins while I look over everything I've ever written, check social media, decide to work on something else, agonize some more, and then a story miraculously appears in my brain. 🤷
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🚨 Applications for the PSLA Emerging Writers Scholarship are now open! 🚨
We'll only be accepting the first 125 applications, so get yours in as soon as possible.
Here's how:
form.jotform.com/202746305642...
We'll only be accepting the first 125 applications, so get yours in as soon as possible.
Here's how:
form.jotform.com/202746305642...
PSLA Emerging Writers Scholarship
Please click the link to complete this form.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
🚨 Applications for the PSLA Emerging Writers Scholarship are now open! 🚨
We'll only be accepting the first 125 applications, so get yours in as soon as possible.
Here's how:
form.jotform.com/202746305642...
We'll only be accepting the first 125 applications, so get yours in as soon as possible.
Here's how:
form.jotform.com/202746305642...
At my exclusive writing retreat (aka on the train). 5 submissions/pitches to work on. Let's do this.🚅✒️🚅✒️🚅
January 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
At my exclusive writing retreat (aka on the train). 5 submissions/pitches to work on. Let's do this.🚅✒️🚅✒️🚅
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REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!!
www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
we're here — neon hemlock
www.neonhemlock.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!!
www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
www.neonhemlock.com/were-here